This week I am going to dedicate my posts to sharing resources I learned about at TCEA in Austin last week. Â I think packing too much info into a blog post is overwhelming, so if you are craving more, feel free to check out my notes (which are not finished yet!) here.
I was chatting with one of my colleagues, Kim Ball (@gttechguru) during TCEA last week, and she mentioned a cool activity she had done on her campus called, “Goo in the Loo.” Â This is not as disgusting as it might sound. Â Basically, she posted Google tips in the adult bathrooms so teachers could learn more about ways to take advantage of all of Google’s cool features. Â Awesome!
Goo in the Loo is an idea that was originally proposed by Jessica Johnston (@edtechchic) as a Google Teacher Academy Action Plan. Â You can read more about Jessica’s project here. Â She also provides pre-made Goo in the Loo posters on her site. Â So, you can easily put this plan into place on your own campus by just printing out Jessica’s awesome, crowd-sourced posters.
I plan to utilize Jessica’s posters, but I also wanted to make some of my own. Â Not all of them are going to be Google tips, so I needed a title that was a bit more generic. Â In the interest of making a rhyming blog post as well as using a cute graphic that has been declared free to use, I’m going with “Stuff You Wish You Gnu.” (It turns out GNU is a free operating system, but that’s not really where I was going with that.)
Here is a link to my “Stuff You Wish You Gnu” Â folder. Â I will be adding to it as I create new posters. Â Feel free to use and distribute as you see fit!